Sentences with phrase «on farm workers»

This has followed growing fears about the health effects on farm workers of exposure to organophosphates, also known as OPs.

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

According to DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett, the Senate leadership agreed to an up - or - down vote on a farm workers rights bill that has long been Espada's pet issue (not to mention Kerry Kennedy's, too).

Plaid Cymru has said that if the Supreme Court strikes down the Assembly's new law on farm workers's wages, Westminster must pass a new Government of Wales Act to devolve the necessary powers.

Our survey, however, showed that only 22 per cent of clergymen delivered sermons or sections of sermons on the farm workers» strike.

Not exact matches

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

At a solar farm in North Carolina, workers are bracing for the effect of a new tariff on imported solar cells and modules.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

Workers and visitors pray and sing outdoors, discuss Jewish texts about nature and learn hands - on about the countless Jewish laws and customs connected to farming and how they can be applied for stopping waste, helping the poor and sustaining the planet, Chain said.

The workers on West Bank farms would be Palestinian, although there might be some Israeli technical staff.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

Well, I hope you don't wear clothes of different fabric, or farm (or purchase food from a farm) which puts different crops side by side, or mind if I buy your daughter at a decent price (though I don't know the going rate, but I could sure use the worker), or that you don't work on the Sabbath, or eat any kind of shellfish, or get a hair cut, or play football.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

In 1981, however, Gecan and EBC took on board an associate, former United Farm Worker organizer Stephen Roberson, who is black.

But there are more little workers helping on the Hill Farm too.

The Lodi Rules ™ Program certifies sustainable management of the ecosystem, soils, water, business practices, human resources, and pest control with an emphasis on reducing pesticide risk to farm workers, consumers, small aquatic invertebrates, birds, and bees.

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

Staff from Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF — a program that exchanges labour for keep), help them out with pruning in December and January.

Workers on Rainforest Alliance Certified tea farms benefit from decent wages and housing, as well as access to safe water, health care and education for their children.

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

On a cattle farm in the desert outside Doha, Qatar, hundreds of cows imported from the Netherlands are led into an airconditioned hall to be milked by Asian workers in orange uniforms.

«And since the government's largesse — according to The Australian Financial Review on Monday — goes to Darwin port owners, Wilmar Sugar and JBS Swift — all monopolistic foreign corporations with plantation farming, foreign fly - ins, contractors and mill workers — what benefit is this to Australia?»

Collectively we can work to protect the rights of workers on farms and elsewhere in the food system, and to improve the welfare of animals in agriculture, and to ensure our soils and water are nourished and regenerated.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

The National Farmers Federation made a public statement saying that mistreating workers has no place on Australian farms.

The context in Australia is certainly different to that of the US, but as the Four Corners expose on the pay and conditions for itinerant farm workers here demonstrated, we are not innocent of treating workers unfairly, and the food movement must work in solidarity to remedy these wrongs.

The practical part of the training takes place at the Lynedoch Early Learning Centre, which is situated at the Sustainability Institute on the R310 outside Stellenbosch, and caters mostly to farm workers» children.

There are growing concerns, however, that the company's success is partly based on trading practices that squeeze the margins of suppliers, farmers and workers, and have a negative impact on local shops and the environment because farmers are unable — or unwilling — to make changes to their farming practices.2

A new exhibition chronicling the lives of contemporary migrant farm workers will be on display in the Arbuckle Gallery at the Pacific Hotel from...

Researchers, farmers, chefs, policy makers, government officials, and students will come together panels on topics including; food waste, urban agriculture, family farmers, farm workers, and more.

Example # 1: I heard two students talking about factory farm video footage and how disturbed they felt after seeing a worker stomp on a calf's head (see here).

then on the other side, pictures of the food we wanted to be serving, the all organic, locally grown, politcally correct fruits and vegetables grown on the worker - owned co-op farm where everyone had great health care benefits, and the free range, non-corn-fed animals who never had an unhappy day in their lives until they were turned into school lunches.

Noting his work on Indian reservations, in a migrant farm - worker clinic, and in Mali, Peru, and Afghanistan, he wrote, «I can see no reason to shun modern women's healthcare by avoiding evidence - based medicine.»)

In statements released by Schneiderman's campaign, the three lawmakers touted the candidate's work to on gun reforms and efforts to preserve «reproductive freedom,» marriage equality, and farm workers rights.

Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled.

Jim Bittner, the president of the Niagara County Farm Bureau, operates a fruit farm in Appleton with anywhere from seven to 35 workers, depending on the seaFarm Bureau, operates a fruit farm in Appleton with anywhere from seven to 35 workers, depending on the seafarm in Appleton with anywhere from seven to 35 workers, depending on the season.

Senate Democrats on Thursday renwed their push to have a bill come to the floor that would provide for strengthened labor protections for farm workers in New York.

SYRACUSE, NY — Marcial De Leon - Aguilar, the undocumented worker at the center of a disputed immigration raid on a Rome dairy farm last week, will remain in detention, a federal magistrate ruled today.

In a post on the HQ Nigerian Army Facebook page, Col Antigha said the 700 comprised «farmers, fishermen and members of their families who were hitherto held by Boko Haram terrorists as farm workers».

A coalition of 18 farm organizations on Tuesday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reconsider not defending a state constitutional statute that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to collectively bargain.

We owe it as a duty to cater for the needs of the common man and woman on the streets, on farms, fisher folk, market women, teachers, nurses, other workers, as well as countless millions of our unemployed young men and women.»

Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, right, speaks during a rally calling for farm workers rights on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union archive)

For instance, when members of the Senate labor committee interviewed Acting Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon on Tuesday, Republican members asked her pointed questions on topics about a lawsuit the state Civil Liberties Union has filed seeking to help farm workers form unions.

(Observer file photo) But Fanjul Corp.'s treatment of workers on its cane farming operations have drawn fines and lawsuits in the United States and opprobrium in Mr. Espaillat's native Dominican Republic.

Have the satisfaction of knowing that modest earnings on Workers» Compensation Insurance by New York Farm Bureau ® support important programs that serve New York farmers every day.